TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
1993 (5) TMI 4
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....the assets mentioned in an order dated February 16, 1993 (annexure "1" to the writ petition). The facts, in brief, are that on September 20, 1990, a first information report was lodged at Police Station, Nauchandi, District Meerut (registered as Crime No. 411 of 1990), under section 7/13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, against petitioner No. 3 with the allegation that the said pe....
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....aken possession of the said jewellery and cash, the Income-tax Department proceeded to make enquiry into the matter and eventually concluded that the cash and jewellery belonged to petitioners Nos. 1 and 2. Then, the petitioners approached the respondent to deliver the jewellery and cash back to them. On their request, the respondent passed an order dated February 16, 1993 (annexure "1" to the wr....
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....in an order from the Allahabad High Court to enable him to take further action in the case. This is how petitioner No. 3 made an application seeking clarification in Writ Petition No. 20555 of 1992 filed earlier in this court, and then this court by order dated March 18, 1993, clarified: "Thus, there is no stay in respect of any proceedings before the income-tax authorities and the release of th....
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....11 of 1990 is the alleged illegal gratification of Rs. 10,000 and not the jewellery and cash recovered from the brief-case and, therefore, the respondent is not right in saying, vide order dated February 16, 1993 (annexure-1 to the writ petition), that the seized assets, namely, jewellery and cash, are the property of Investigation No. Sa. Aa. Anu-2-99/90. After the order of the High Court dated ....